59th Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, only _s_. of Col. William
Eliott-Lockhart, of Glentromie, Camberley, Royal (Madras) Artillery
(died 23 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Ada Clare, dau. of Henry Clan Cardew,
Lieut., 94th Regt.; _b._ Kamptee, India, 21 Sept. 1867; educ.
Somerset College, Bath, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.) Indian Army, 23 Nov. 1887; served for one
year with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and then for two years
(1888–90) with the Indian Staff Corps, 14 Nov. 1890; was appointed
to Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides in 1892; and became Capt. 23
Nov. 1898; Major 23 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913; served
(1) as Brig. Transport Officer in the Waziristan Expedition, 1894–95
(medal with clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, present
at storming of the Malakand Pass (medal with clasp); (3) on the N.W.
Frontier of India, 1897–98; took part in the defence, and relief of,
Malakand; the relief of Chakdara, Malakand; operations in Bajaur and
in the Mamund country; Utman Kiel and Buner (mentioned in Despatches
[London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1897], medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); (4)
in China, 1900 (medal); (5) in East Africa, 1903–04 as D.A.A. and
Q.M.G., 2nd Brigade. Somaliland Field Force; took part in operations
in Somaliland; action at Jidballi (again mentioned in Despatches
[London Gazette, 2 Sept. 1914], medal with two clasps): and (6) with
the Expeditionary Force in France, in command of the 59th Scinde Rifles
from 28 Jan. 1915, and died 12 March, 1915, from wounds received in
action at Neuve Chapelle, a few hours previously. Buried about a mile
to the west of Neuve Chapelle. He _m._ at High Leigh, Cheshire, 26
April, 1905, Katherine Mary, dau. of James Worrall, of High Leigh, and
had two children: William, _b._ 11 Feb 1906; and Katharine Clare,
_b._ 3 March, 1909.
=LOFT, ALMA JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1847U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOFTS, BERNARD=, Private, No. 1966, 6th, attd. 8th Battn. The
Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Alfred Lofts, of Amersham, co.
Bucks, Provision Merchant, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William Hicks,
of Looe, Cornwall; _b._ Canonbury, N., 20 April, 1891; educ.
Watford Grammar School, and Bethany House School, Goudhurst, co. Kent;
was apprenticed to the drapery trade at Uxbridge; and was successively
employed by Eaden and Lilley, Cambridge; Hitchcock Williams, St. Paul’s
Churchyard; and C. Jenner and Co., Edinburgh; joined the Royal Scots
after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914,
and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; _unm._ Buried
near Festubert.
[Illustration: =Bernard Lofts.=]
=LOFTS, JAMES=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306070, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915; _m._
=LOGAN, JAMES AIRD=, A.B., 215575, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOGAN, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9595), S.S.
106972, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOMAX, GERALD DAVID=, Lieut. 3rd Battn. The Welch Regt., 2nd
_s._ of the late Capt. David Alexander Napier Lomax, Welch Regt.
(killed in action at Driefontein, 10 March, 1900 during the South
African War), by his wife, Annette (now wife of Major Frank Towle, of
3, Clarence Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.); _b._ Manorbier, co.
Pembroke, 6 Jan. 1895; educ. Marlborough College; gazetted 2nd Lieut.,
The Welch Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1915; went
to France, 12 March, whilst there was attd. to the 2nd Royal Berkshire
Regt., and died in the hospital barge, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received
in action at Fromelles two days previously; _unm._ Buried at
Estaires, in the English Cemetery. His Doctor wrote: “We did all we
could to make him comfortable, but his wounds were so severe that
medically speaking he never had a chance; fortunately he suffered very
little pain, and died as I fancy he must have lived, bravely thinking
of others more than himself.” His brother, Capt. C. E. N. Lomax, also
Welch Regt., is now (1916) on active service, being a Temporary Major
in the Manchester Regt.
[Illustration: =Gerald David Lomax.=]
=LOMAX, HARRY=, Private, No. 2164, 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry
Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of Robert Lomax, of
4, Birmingham Street, Bolton, Mechanic, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau.
of Joseph Smith; _b._ Bolton, co. Lancaster, 10 Jan. 1885; educ.
St. Matthew’s Church of England Schools and Bolton Municipal Secondary
School; sometime employed at the Bolton Post Office; emigrated to New
Zealand in Sept. 1909, and later went to Sydney, Australia, where he
was a member of the Lancashire Association; volunteered for Imperial
service, 4 May, 1915, and joined the 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial
Force; left for Egypt, 16 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 1 Aug.,
and was killed in action there, 6–9 Aug. 1915, during the fighting at
Lone Pine; _unm._
[Illustration: =Harry Lomax.=]
=LONG, FREDERICK RICHARD RANDOLPH=, Bugler, R.M.A., 10307, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=LONG, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Cl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7397), S.S.
102426, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LONG, STEWART SHACROFT=, Leading Seaman, 231412, H.M.S
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=LONGBOURNE, WILLIAM LOUIS JENNINGS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (F.), 4th surviving _s._ of the
late Charles R. V. Longbourne, of Ripsley, co. Sussex, by his wife,
Caroline Elizabeth Ainslie, dau. of the late Rev. and Hon. James
Norton, of Anningsley Park, co. Surrey [4th son of Hon. Fletcher
Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland, and gdson. of Fletcher,
1st Baron Grantley, P.C.]; _b._ Ripsley, 24 Aug. 1887; educ.
Malvern College, passed all the Law examinations for a Solicitor;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. The Queen’s, 9 May, 1914, promoted
Lieut., took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the early morning of
9 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent attack on Chocolate Hill, the same
day; while leading his platoon in the attack he was badly wounded when
near the top of the hill, but refused to allow his men to help him,
telling them to go on. Afterwards, owing to the cross fire and nature
of the country, it was found impossible to get to him and he was never
seen again.
[Illustration: =William L. J. Longbourne.=]
=LONGHURST, CHARLES=, Private, No. 10029, 2nd Battn. Queen’s
Royal West Surrey Regt., _s._ of Charles Longhurst, of 68, Regent
Street, Whitstable, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France
and Flanders; killed in action at Gheluvelt, 29 Oct. 1914.
=LONGMAN, FREDERICK=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd
_s._ of Charles James Longman, of Upp Hall, Braughing, Ware, and
39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., M.A., J.P., Publisher, by his wife,
Harriet Ann, 2nd dau. of Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S.; _b._
Norfolk Square, London, 9 May, 1890; educ. Harrow and Pembroke College,
Cambridge; joined the Hertfordshire Territorials in 1910; gazetted 2nd
Lieut., Royal Fusiliers, 13 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 24 Aug.
1914; went to France 13 Aug.; was wounded in the arm at the Battle
of the Marne, but rejoined his regt. after a short stay at a base
hospital, and was killed in action at Herlies, 18 Oct. following;
_unm._ On this day his regiment was holding the village of Le
Riez close to Herlies and he was resting in a farm with some brother
officers, when a shell burst over this house. Lieut. Longman ran to
put on his equipment and join his men; but another shell exploded just
outside the window, and a pellet struck him in the temple, killing
him instantaneously. His Colonel (since killed in action) wrote:
“Please accept my deepest sympathy and be consoled with the thought
that his work on active service was as sound and valuable as his
conduct has been brave and dutiful. His rapid return to duty after
the wound received after crossing the Marne marked him specially as
a genuine soldier, and his loss will be very much felt by all of us,
professionally and socially.” A brother officer also wrote: “He was
always cheery, and it did us all good to see the way he did his job,
and never grumbled at anything. He was one of the gallantest fellows I
ever saw, and nothing ever frightened him. We are all proud of him, and
his name will always go on in the Regiment’s history as a hero”; and
another said he noticed, on the retreat from Mons, how he carried far
more than his share of the necessaries, and constantly cheered his men
by word and example in their temporary depression. While at Harrow, he
was a member of the School Corps, and of the Football XI in 1907, in
which year he was also a Dolphin and champion featherweight boxer. He
was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and later held a commission in
the Hertfordshire Territorial Regt., for which he recruited a section
of 41 men in the neighbourhood of his home at Braughing. He was an
active member of the local rifle club and gave much time to training
lads from the village school at the miniature range, some of whom
became excellent shots. In the army he devoted himself to training
his men in shooting and boxing, and represented his battn. in the
competition for the Army championship at rifle shooting. In regard to
his boxing in the Southern Command Boxing Meeting of 1914, the judge
remarked that his fight was the finest thing he had ever seen, and held
it up to the men as an example of British pluck and endurance.
[Illustration: =Frederick Longman.=]
=LONGSDON, ALFRED ALLEN=, St. John Ambulance Brigade, _s._
of the late Robert Longsdon, of Bromley, Kent, Civil Engineer, by his
wife, Maria, dau. of Richard (and Sarah) Allen; _b._ Bromley, 16
Feb. 1866; educ. Wellington College, was a scientist; joined the St.
John Ambulance Association after the outbreak of war, in Oct. 1914;
went to France in the early part Dec., and was accidentally killed at
Havre, 6 Jan. 1915, while on service. In returning to the hospital
situated on the docks, Mr. Longsdon, who was owner-driver of a Fiat
motor ambulance, had to pass near the edge of one of the quays. In the
darkness he must have misjudged the distance, for the ambulance car
fell into the basin and when he was got out of the water he was found
to have sustained a fractured skull, and he died without recovering
consciousness. Buried at Havre. He _m._ at St. Mary Abbotts,
Kensington, 5 Sept. 1896, Ellen Mary (Addison Mansions, Kensington),
yst. dau. of Joseph Allen, and had five children: Robert Cyril,
_b._ 28 March, 1900; Grant Allen, _b._ (posthumous) 2 June,
1915; Nancy, _b._ 22 July, 1902; Marion, _b._ 1 May, 1908;
and Merritt Jean, _b._ 23 June, 1911.
[Illustration: =Alfred Allen Longsdon.=]
=LONSDALE, ARTHUR CARR GLYN=, Lieut., 6th Battn. King’s Royal
Rifle Corps, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. _s._ of
the late Rev. John Henry Lonsdale, M.A., Rector of Fontmell Magna,
Shaftesbury, by his wife, Katharine Carr (The Further House, Wimborne,
co. Dorset), dau. of Capt. Carr Stuart Glyn, of Wood Leage, Wimborne,
and gdson. of the late Canon John Gilby Lonsdale, of Lichfield;
_b._ Wall Vicarage, Lichfield, co. Stafford, 7 Sept. 1891; educ.
Summerfields, Oxford; Radley, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and
was intending to take orders, but on the outbreak of war, obtained a
commission as 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, from the
C.U.O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to
France in Nov., 1914; was subsequently attd. to the 2nd Royal Scots
Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10
March, 1915, while leading his platoon; _unm._ Buried there. While
at Summerfields, he won an Eton and a Radley Scholarship; at Radley he
was capt. of rackets and of fives, and at Cambridge where he graduated
in 1910, he represented his college at tennis.
[Illustration: =Arthur Carr G. Lonsdale.=]
=LONSDALE, DAVID=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 1005), 284049, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=LOOS, CECIL GEORGE BERTRAM=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The
Worcestershire Regt., yr. _s._ of the late Hon. Frederick Charles
Loos, C.M.G., by his wife, Isabel (Roseneath, Darley Road, Colombo,
Ceylon); _b._ Colombo, 3 Oct. 1884; educ. Bedford Grammar School;
obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Buffs (Militia), 1904;
transferred to the 1st Worcestershire Regt., 27 May, 1908, and joined
the Reserve of Officers, 1912; on the outbreak of war rejoined the
3rd Battn. of his regt.; was promoted Lieut. in Dec.; went to France,
3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 12 March, 1915.
Buried there near the chateau. He _m._ at St. Leonards-on-Sea,
16 April, 1912, Helen, dau. of John Hines, of Seddlescombe Lodge, St.
Leonards-on-Sea, and had one son, Frederick Charles, _b._ May,
1913.
[Illustration: =Cecil George B. Loos.=]
=LORAM, ALLEN=, Stoker, 1st Class, 294257, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LORD, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2358), 184692, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LORD, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, B. 4301, S.S. 103147, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=LORD, WILLIAM HERBERT=, A.B., J. 13484, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action, 22 Sept., 1914.
=LOUCH, THOMAS=, Private, No. 13590, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards,
_s._ of the late Thomas Louch (died 17 June, 1905), by his wife,
Mary Ann (Newbold-upon-Avon), dau. of the late Matthew Davies, of
Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; _b._ Newbold-on-Avon, near
Rugby, co. Warwick, 12 May, 1883; educ. Council School there, and
afterwards attended night schools and gained several certificates. He
was engaged in the building trade, but after the declaration of war,
answered his country’s call and enlisted in Nov. 1914. He was sent to
the Front in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 8 Oct.
1915; _unm._ He was a member of the Newbold Football Club and of
the Committee of the Cricket Club. He was also a member of the Church
Choir and for several seasons spent most of his leisure time in helping
to beautify the churchyard.
[Illustration: =Thomas Louch.=]
=LOVATT, WILLIAM HENRY TURNER=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports. 7248),
R.F.R., Ch. B. 1203, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22
Sept. 1914.
=LOVEDAY, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Private, No. 9411, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Joseph Joel Loveday, of 58, Yew Tree Road, Witton,
Birmingham, late Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of
William Green, of Berkshire; _b._ Saltley, Birmingham, 15 April,
1893; educ. College School there, enlisted 8 Jan. 1912; went to France,
12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following;
_unm._
[Illustration: =Arthur Edward Loveday.=]
=LOW, ANDREW LESLIE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1084, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOW, DAVID=, Private, No. 4104, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots,
_s._ of Alexander Low; _b._ Edinburgh, 23 Dec. 1881; educ.
Cranstoun Street School there; enlisted 1897; served in the South
African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medal), and with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action
near Kemmel, 21 Jan. 1915. He _m._ at Edinburgh, 1903, Catherine
(16, South Richmond Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Hugh Flaherty, and had
four children: Alexander, _b._ 15 Feb. 1909; Hugh, _b._ 31
Jan. 1914; Catherine Muir, _b._ 18 Nov. 1903; and Helen Pringle,
_b._ 24 Oct. 1912.
[Illustration: =David Low.=]
=LOW, ROBERT THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8900), 199042, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=LOWE, BERTIE GUY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1713),
10813, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOWE, HENRY STANLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Worcestershire
Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Rev. Edward Jackson Lowe, Vicar
of Stallingborough, and only _s._ by his 2nd wife; _b._
Stallingborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Feb. 1891; educ. Glengarth Preparatory
School, Cheltenham; Bilton Grange, near Rugby; Rugby, and in Sandhurst
Company at Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 6
Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1913; joined his regt. in
Jhansi, India, in Jan. 1910; returned to Aldershot in 1913; went to
France, and died at Paris, 21 Oct. following, of wounds received in
action during the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept.; _unm._ Buried at
St. Germain-en-Laye.
=LOWE, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7944), S.S. 1554, H.M.S. Hawke,
_s._ of Thomas Lowe, of 6, Shepherd Place Buildings, Lees Mews,
Park Street, London, W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=LOWE, THOMAS=, A.B., B. 1529, 190575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=LOWERY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1236 U., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOWIN, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9654), S.S.
107099, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOWRIE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115510, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=LOWRY, JOHN=, A.B., R.F.R., B. 3218, S.S. 741, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=LOWTH, JAMES FRANCIS ALEXANDER=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14721,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=LOXLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 14657, 4th Battn. Coldstream
Guards, eldest _s._ of the late William Loxley, Engine Fitter,
by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late Edward Stringer; _b._
Ecclesfleld, co. York, 26 Oct. 1885; educ. there; was a stove and
grate fitter; volunteered and enlisted 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 15
Aug. 1915, and died in Convalescent Home, Westbury, co. Wilts, 27 Nov.
1915, of wounds received in action during the Battle of Loos, 27–29
Sept. 1915. He _m._ at Grimsby, 4 Aug. 1912, Edith Mary (3, Burton
Street, Langsett Road, Sheffield), widow of Philip Munty, and dau. of
the late Frederick Charles Unwin; _s.p._
=LOXTON, CHARLES EDWARD HOLDEN=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. North
Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Charles Adshead Loxton,
of Shoal Hill House, Cannock, LL.B., Solicitor, of Walsall, by his
wife, Emily Clara, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Thomas Holden, of Great
Barr, formerly M.P. and Mayor of Walsall; _b._ at Walsall, 3
June, 1892; educ. Sandroyd School, Stanmore; Harrow (Druries), and
University College, Oxford; was a student at the Inner Temple, and
after passing Moderations with honours (Classics) at Oxford, became a
student also in the faculty of Medicine and Surgery; volunteered on
the outbreak of war and gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th North Staffordshires,
Aug. 1914; went to France, 3 March, 1915, and was killed in action near
Wulverghem, early on Sunday morning, 23 May, 1915; _unm._ Soon
after midnight he was with his men repairing some wiring in front of
the trench, when he was struck by a bullet, and died in the ambulance
on his way to the hospital. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Belgium. His
commanding officer, Col. Knight, wrote: “He was certainly the bravest
man I have seen out here, and endeared himself to all of us. We did
our best to make him more cautious, but he would set the example--as
he did to all of us--to his platoon, and he made them into a splendid
lot of men.” The President of the Officer’s Mess also wrote: “I need
only say that he was universally beloved by both officers and men, and
his platoon would have done anything for him and followed him anywhere,
and by his splendid behaviour in the face of danger he has left us a
grand example.” The Platoon Sergt. writing on behalf of the platoon
said: “In any work one or more of us were engaged in, he was always
ready with a helping hand, thus in no small way in his capacity of an
officer, displaying his desire to encourage us, and he always proved
himself to be of an unselfish and thoughtful disposition.” Lieut.
Loxton was fond of yatching and had just returned from a yatching
cruise on the West of Scotland when the war broke out. While a boy
at Stanmore, he became a member of the University and Public Schools
Camp, and attended each year with the Anglesey Camp. He regarded these
camps with real affection, and said they taught a boy the manliness of
religion and not to be ashamed of it. His Housemaster at the Druries
Harrow, wrote: “Edward Loxton came to Harrow in 1906. A steady worker
if not an accomplished scholar in the technical sense, he had a strong
appreciation of the best in literature, and spent a year in the highest
form in the school. But it was in the house that his gifts of character
were most clearly to be discerned. To a personality of great charm,
and an exceptional talent for friendship, he added an unostentatious
force of character, a self-less devotion to duty and all the simplicity
of a finely touched spirit. Passionately loyal himself, he abhorred
all that was mean or base. It surprises none who loved him to read of
his bravery in the field, as he was _sans reproche_, he would be
_sans peur_. He is deeply mourned in a house which has given many
lives of bright promise in England’s cause.”
[Illustration: =Charles E. H. Loxton.=]
=LUCY, REGINALD ERIC=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Northamptonshire
Regt., elder _s._ of Major Reginald Horace Lucy, of 9, The
Crescent, Plymouth, M.B., F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th Southern
General Hospital, Plymouth, by his wife, Emily Susan, dau. of Robert
Shackleford Cross; _b._ Plymouth, 28 July, 1893; educ. Ellerslie,
Fremington, N. Devon, Malvern College, and the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 22 Jan. 1913,
and promoted Lieut. 8 July, 1914; served with his regt. in Malta and
Egypt until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; returned to England in
Oct.; went to France with the 8th Division, in Nov., and died at No. 7
Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 March, 1915, of wounds received in
action near Neuve Chapelle on the 12th; _unm._
=LUFF, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 10450, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, 3rd _s._ of Frederick Luff, of 2, Court, 2, Newton
Lane, Sheffield, by his wife, Lily, dau. of Thomas Clarke; _b._
Sheffield, 27 June, 1895; educ. St. Mary’s Church School there;
enlisted in Nov. 1913; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in
action at Rentel, 27 Oct. following.
[Illustration: =William Henry Luff.=]
=LUKIS, THEODORE STEWART=, M.D., M.R.C.P., Capt., 13th (Princess
Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._
of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.C.S.,
Director-Gen. I.M.S., by his wife, Lilian, dau. of the late Col. John
Stewart, C.I.E., R.A.; _b._ Cawnpore, India, 7 Dec. 1885; educ.
Tonbridge School; entered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in 1903, M.D.
(Gold medal) London, 1912; M.R.C.P. London, 1913; Assistant Physician
Queen’s Hospital for children; Demonst. Physiol. St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital, Fellow of London Medical Society, some time Home Physician to
the Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and House Physician and
Opth. Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s. On the outbreak of war enlisted in
the Kensingtons, 20 Aug. 1914, for service in the ranks; was gazetted
Lieut. 15 Dec. 1914, and Capt. 13 March, 1915; severely wounded at
“Port Arthur,” Neuve Chapelle, on 12 March, 1915, he died in No. 7
Base Hospital at Boulogne, 15 March following; _unm._ He won the
open science scholarship in 1904, and the gold medal in medicine at
the London University in 1912, and was elected to the Junior Staff of
St. Bartholomew’s, and the Queen’s Hospital for children. “His great
ability was recognised by all, and he was profoundly interested in
medical research. But his deepest interest was in the condition of the
London poor, and he early tried to give practical relief by throwing
himself heart and soul into the Boy Scout movement. He commanded the
East London Torynbee Hall Scouts for some years. On the outbreak of
war, after much heart searching, he decided to enlist and thus set an
example in its simplest form, and he was followed to the recruiting
office by 80 ex-scouts, and scoutmasters.”
=LUMSDEN, ANDREW STEEDMAN=, Private No. 2153, 1/4th Battn. The
Royal Scots,(T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Andrew Steedman Lumsden, of 14,
Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, A. Mus. T.C.L., Teacher of Music, by his
wife, Lillias Ellen, dau. of William Gray Tennant, Merchant, of Leith;
_b._ Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1891; educ. Bruntsfield School, Edinburgh;
was assistant to Mr. Alex. G. Pyrie, Grocer, Edinburgh; volunteered and
joined the Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left Larbert for Liverpool on the
morning of 22 May, 1915, just escaped the railway disaster at Gretna
Green on that date, being in the train that preceded the one that was
wrecked; left Liverpool on or about the 23rd May, 1915, for Gallipoli,
and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; _unm._ On 10 June,
1915, he wrote; “We have now left for Alexandria, started yesterday
morning and are on our way to an unknown destination”; and on 25 June,
1915, he wrote from Gallipoli stating; “We have been in the trenches
and are now in the rest camp.”
[Illustration: =Andrew Steedman Lumsden.=]